Microsoft PowerPoint - Slides Instructions
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software. It should be used primarily to create text based presentations with some graphics. Although there is no substitute for reading the User's Manual (or accessing online help), here are a few helpful hints that should help you to prepare your presentation for imaging by Visual Art Services.
1. From the File menu go to • New: Choose a Blank presentation or a PowerPoint Template. • Page Set Up: slide size - 35mm; orientation - landscape 2. Format the Slide Master - on the View menu, point to Master, click Slide Master. • Set attributes for font, color scheme, size text, background and borders. All slides in the presentation will then have the attributes of the Slide Master. • After formatting your Master Slide go to the View menu and click Slides 3. To enter text in a title or text place holder, just click and type 4. To add a slide to your presentation from the Insert Menu, click New Slide. Select the layout that has the place holders you need. 5. DO NOT copy/paste from one application to another. To add clip art, graphs or scanned images to your presentation please follow these recommendations:
From MAC :
• To Insert Files from other Microsoft applications (Excel or Word) on the Insert menu, point to Insert Object, click the appropriate application. • Files from Non-Microsoft applications should be saved as PICT files and inserted into your slide on the Insert menu, point to Insert Picture, click from file. • Scanned images should be between 500k and 1.5mb in file size and saved as a PICT (.pct) or TIFF (.tif) file (no layers, no clipping paths, no compression) in Photoshop. From the Insert menu, point to Insert Picture, click from file. 6. SAVE frequently throughout your creation process. Before bringing to Visual Arts for imaging save as follows: • Save as a PowerPoint Presentation (.PPT file). This is the default - no special saving is required. • Bring or send to our dropbox each file to be imaged.
From PC:
• To Insert Files from other Microsoft applications (Excel or Word) on the Insert menu, point to Insert Object, click the appropriate application. • Files from Non-Microsoft applications should be saved as TIF files and inserted into your slide on the Insert menu, point to Insert Picture, click from file. • Scanned images should be between 500k and 1.5mb in file size and saved as a TIF file (no layers, no clipping paths, no compression) in Photoshop. From the Insert menu, point to Insert Picture, click from file. 6. SAVE frequently throughout your creation process. Before bringing to Visual Arts for imaging save as follows: • Save as a PowerPoint Presentation (.PPT file). This is the default - no special saving is required. • Bring or send to our dropbox each file to be imaged.
Bring your files on Floppy Disks, Zip Disks, Jaz Disks, or CDs. Or transfer your files directly from your computer to our file server using Fetch or FTP. Call us for more info. Remember: Only put the files you want imaged on the disk you bring to VAS!
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